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Re: [News] Windows Vista: So Bad That Microsoft Might Give it For Free

__/ [ Oliver Wong ] on Friday 11 August 2006 17:13 \__

> "Roy Schestowitz" <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:7661661.N1iyRYUiNH@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>
>> ,----[ Excerpt ]
>> | Rumors spread that well-known PC makers will offer buyers a coupon for a
>> | free upgrade to Vista.
>> `----
> 
> 
>     Subject line is misleading. Here's the real story:
> 
>     A lot of people don't want to buy a computer now with Windows XP on it,
> and then pay again later for an upgrade to Vista, when they could just wait
> until Vista comes out, and buy a computer with Vista pre-loaded. Desktop
> computer sales have been dropping. Companies have approached Microsoft with
> this concern, and Microsoft agreed to issue out coupons such that if you
> buy a computer now with XP on it, you'll be able to upgrade to Vista for
> free.
> 
>     A much less biased[*] presentation of the story is available at
> http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060810-7467.html
> <quote>
> When Microsoft announced that the consumer release of Windows Vista would
> miss the crucial 2006 Christmas shopping season, many PC retailers and OEMs
> saw visions of sugarplums dancing merrily away from their wallets. It was
> rumored that Microsoft might help lessen the pain slightly by offering free
> Vista upgrade coupons for people who buy PCs at the end of the year, and
> now these rumors have been confirmed.
> </quote>
> 
>     - Oliver
> 
> [*]: They aren't blindly praising Vista either, as seen in
> <quote>
> However, there is still the possibility that many people will wait it out
> until the operating system is actually released. For one thing, it
> eliminates having to upgrade Vista over top of an existing Windows XP
> install, a process that is more confusing than it ought to be thanks to the
> plethora of Vista versions.
> </quote>

Thanks for the correction. The parts that I quoted were the only one that I
read. The excerpt (from the feed) was also quite deceiving (or incomplete).

Best wishes,

Roy

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